WELCOME TO MOMMY & ME SELF DEFENSE

“Our kids learn so much more from watching us than listening. While we talk endlessly, demand respect and attention, they are relentlessly watching us for clues to the universe, for who to be and who not to be, for what personal responsibility, inner strength, perseverance, common sense and problem solving actually look like. We need to walk the walk, not just talk. We need to be the ultimate role models.” ~ Teja VanWicklen

…MOMMY & ME SELF DEFENSE RESOURCES

The Kid-Ten (Everyday Carry for Kids) on the DIY Safety Kits Pageof the Resources tab, lists things kids of different ages can keep with them to help them learn to be more self-sufficient.

The mainResources page has some links you might find helpful and will be updated when I find new and helpful sites to share with you. If you have something you’d like us to add, please Contact Us.

We created the Baby Steps Audio Programfor exhausted, over-worked moms. Read more about it below, or listen to an excerpt of initunes or Amazon)

The Secrets of Women’s Self Defense online course was built for everyone. It is a college course in self defense and great place to start your self defense education. Read more about what to expect from the Secrets online course and the Baby Steps Audio Program, below.

Finally, expect a Mommy & Me Self Defense Ebook that expands on the audio program out in mid 2015!

If you have a specific question, Contact Us. We hope to have more soon…

…The Story

After years and years of martial arts and adventuring, I decided to go for the biggest adventure of them all – Motherhood. It was a lot more than I had bargained for.

I imagined a carefree pregnancy ending with a hike up a mountain to the summit; on arrival I would give birth under a spectacular sunset, hike back down and make it in time for dinner (not really, but sort of).

Instead I ended up bedridden, nauseated, operated on for a hernia going into my third trimester, then sick with an unknown malady for months until doctors discovered I had a bad strep infection. And that’s only part of it.

During all this I couldn’t help but notice the conspicuous lack of attention to all this vulnerability in my many years of training. Not to mention these little people running around who depend on us.

I imagined myself kicking and punching, infant strapped to my body, nursing in spite of my gymnastics. I take out one attacker, then the other. And go have a beer.

Right.

Actually what I really imagined is far too scary to repeat. Part of it involved my slung infant become a shield for any untoward encounters. Him between me and the bad guy. Not my kind of odds.

Not that I walk around expecting horrible things to happen, but after years of training it was only natural for me to test my knowledge in this new and very real life. You don’t have to worry about these things. That’s the job of people like me who have made a hobby of dissecting emergencies and violence and giving you the cliff notes.

Anyway, thus began the quest that ended with Protective Offense and Mommy & Me Self Defense.

…Birth of the Mommy & Me Self Defense Audio Program (pun intended)

I had a vision of a live class at every gym, a book, an online class, but I couldn’t get to a yoga class, so I didn’t want to be a hypocrite and tell other women to be SuperMoms – to bring home the bacon, fry it up, and get to self defense class.

Even reading or watching a half hour show was next to impossible. While I was figuring out how to fit in time to take a shower or grab a nap, I could, however, listen to books.

So I started with an audio program, because I thought it would be the easiest thing for new moms to do.

It’s a bit on the serious side – it’s a pretty serious subject – and I hadn’t yet mastered the art of discussing serious things using humor. It’s a tough balance. I hope you enjoy the research that went into it. I hope it makes you feel just a bit more in control.…

Excerpt from the Mommy & Me Self Defense
Baby Steps Audio Program CD:

“…Minds can be trained just like bodies. With exercise and repetition. Training your mind to question itself and its methods, to examine its environment, requires practice.

It might help you to know that this training applies to every aspect of life, not just the bad stuff. You’ll begin to form mental tools you can use in daily interactions with people as well as during any emergency situation – floods, fires, storms, even flat tires.

Though they fit many purposes, these lessons focus primarily on how to keep yourself and your family off the criminal radar, with an emphasis on the specific issues that make Mom’s of infants and toddlers more vulnerable to violent crime.

Can so much be accomplished just by listening?

Keep in mind that the goal is not to become a lethal warrior but to become an UNACCEPTABLE TARGET and the master of your own life…”